Photo voltaic Power
Whereas People are falling behind on their utility payments, Australia has constructed a lot photo voltaic that it’ll quickly provide lots of its residents three hours a day of free electrical energy. When photo voltaic output is excessive in mid-day, Australians will have the ability to run their washers, or sustain their AC for no price in any respect.
Why can’t we’ve that? The solar shines right here too, particularly within the South.
Sadly, the EPA canceled grants for “Photo voltaic for All” that had been already dedicated by the earlier Congress. Low and middle-income owners, who might have been including photo voltaic to their properties, now lack the start-up funds.
Different packages that assist save us cash, just like the Power Star program to price effectivity in home equipment, had been additionally slated for elimination by the president’s proposed FY2026 funds. Congress might preserve Power Star within the funds in any case, however this administration stays hostile to energy-saving measures that decrease the earnings of their fossil gasoline donors.
Name Senators Markey and Warren, and your Congressperson, and inform them to defend clear power and power effectivity funds within the FY2026 funds. Let’s catch as much as Australia and assist everybody pay their payments.
Mary Memmott
Framingham
Bipartisanship
Regards the federal government shutdown, it took the airways cancelling flights to lastly finish it. By no means thoughts the meals stamps mess or the workers laid off, jet planes acquired the eye of Congress. I notice how necessary jets are. Getting house for our troops and others is essential. Maintain ’em flying! Now we’ve some cooperation between politicians and a few small diploma of concord. That’s how America works finest. Pooling our sources and brains can create a path to actual peace. Hopefully we’ll keep heading in the right direction.
Tom King
North Bennington, VT
Hub spending
I’m confused by Mayor Michelle Wu’s actions (“Oh Canada,” Nov. 18). Final week Wu was on the information stating that many households in Boston are uncertain the place their subsequent meal was coming from. Once I heard this I went to the Better Boston Meals Financial institution and donated $100 value of meals.
This week I learn the information and it acknowledged that Wu’s household journey to Canada the place she chopped down the Boston Christmas tree price $5,000 in taxpayer funds. My first response was this have to be pretend information, given the dire want for meals in Boston, however I used to be incorrect.
I’m completely dissatisfied that Mayor Wu thinks she will be able to do no matter she needs with our (hard-earned) taxpayer {dollars}. The scary half is she will be able to do precisely that, and there may be nothing any of us hard-working taxpayers can do about it.
Michael Westen
Malden
